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From the July-August, 1998 issue (Vol. 5 No. 5) |
In this issue, we are happy to present transcriptions of two officials involved in contemporary investigations of the assassinations of the sixties. First, we present Judge Joe Brown’s comments spread over two nights in Memphis during the commemoration for the thirtieth anniversary of Martin Luther King’s murder. We think you will agree with us that they form quite a strong indictment over what was going on behind the scenes in the year long controversy over that case. In May, the Director and chief counsel of the Review Board, Jeremy Gunn, gave a long and detailed talk at Stanford University. Gary Aguilar taped that talk and we had it transcribed by Paul Ruiz. This is probably the clearest and most detailed explanation of what Mr. Gunn felt the mission of the Board was and also his personal views on his experience so far and what it was like to deal with certain executive intelligence agencies over a nearly four year period. This talk makes us anticipate what will be in the Board’s final report scheduled for release this fall.
Gerald Posner is at it again.This time, Case Closed is titled Killing the Dream and focuses on the King assassination. We note some more errors, and focus on Posner's curious (mis)representation of David Ferrie, one not borne out by the documents now available.
As readers of Probe know, one of the most ignored changes in foreign policy made after the Kennedy assassination was the U.S. relationship with Indonesia. We have tried to educate our readers on this very important point, most notably through three long and interesting articles focusing on the CIA, Freeport Sulphur (today Freeport McMoRan), and that company’s influence in Cuba and Indonesia. The tumultuous events in May marked how important the aforementioned change in foreign policy was. If you were only watching TV or reading the newspapers, you didn’t get the whole story. We try and give it to you here.
In her third and concluding installment, Lisa Pease probes more deeply into the mysterious Gordon Novel as revealed through his own words in a long deposition for his libel case against Jim Garrison. Gordon reveals his ties to both Bud Fensterwald and Walter Sheridan, the latter taking us even deeper into the subterranean intelligence net meant to ensnare Garrison. In a sidebar, Gordon reveals just how deeply he was wired into Garrison’s office as early as the first week of March, 1967.
Don Gibson examines some peculiar editing of the Johnson White House phone transcripts as assembled by Michael Beschloss in his 1997 book. As Gibson notes, he wrote a landmark article on this particular subject for Probe which pretty much nailed the origins of the Warren Commission. Readers of the Beschloss book will remain partly in the dark on that topic. Finally, Barbara La Monica pulls back one more curtain on the true status and pedigree of Ruth and Michael Paine. We certainly hope that Mr. Gunn finds the time to depose this extremely intriguing duo before his statute runs out. If not, many people, including me, will be very disappointed.
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